My youngest daughter is going the see "The Croods"  today - it's the latest DreamWorks production, this time about a prehistoric family about to "leave the cave". I''m secretly jealous that I'm not going too, but I'd stick out like a sore thumb among her group of friends.

The trailers look so good that I'll definitely have to go one way or another - or leave it for the next long-haul flight. This one in particular is brilliant. It has a lot to say about knowledge, learning, innovation,  improvement and change management - not to mention the reaction of teen-aged girls!

See if you can spot the following - all in 51 seconds:

• Initial problem with someone feeling the pain,
• Repeated failure to listen, repeated pain,
• Failure of conventional wisdom and leadership,
• Recognition of the need for alternative perspective,
• Innovation and learning from analogues,
• Experimentation and adaptation,
• A trumpeted and hyped solution,
• Disproportionate excitement followed by immediate sense of loss!

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Now, does any of that look familiar in your organisation?